Write As If Body Feels Pain Can Heal

Austin, If you feel sick or there is something wrong in your body, you should write complaints in positive words in your personal diary or blog. Studies prove the writing has the power to cure and alleviate disease
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This is what a cancer survivor who is also a writer, Amanda Enayati. When cancer is diagnosed, the first thing he did was call my husband and his family, because he felt unable to bear grief alone.

Then the second thing he did was write on a blog with text entitled 'The Second Half of My Life'.

Here are the words that she wrote in the first few minutes:

You probably will not believe my life. In certain light it will read like an encyclopedia of tragedy: the revolution, illness, isolation, dysfunction, terrorism, failure and withdrawal (withdrawal). Before you go, let me also tell you that if you met me, you probably think I am a happy person who never lived.

"Writing is an automatic, intuitive (follow your heart) and barely conscious for me. But as time passed, I feel confident that it has helped save my life, though I dare not reveal it for fear of sounding irrational," explains Amanda Enayati , as reported by CNN, Friday (07/01/2011).

According to him, writing is a basic human need to tell a story, including the story of his life. This can reduce stress levels which ultimately could alleviate the suffering of the felt.

A study conducted by Dr.. James Pennebaker, professor and chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, also found a correlation between traumatic experiences and the increasing number of health problems.

"Stress is major in life affects physical health. There is absolutely no doubt that having a serious upheaval in your life is associated with potentially adverse biological changes, such as increased cardiovascular activity, lowered immune function, increased risk of heart attack," said Dr. Pennebaker.

In the first study, published in 1986, Dr. Pennebaker learn how to write and reveal suppressed trauma that can help alleviate a person's disease.

Dr. Pennebaker made two groups were divided into groups that wrote the complaint or the trauma and control groups for comparison.

The result, six months later the group that wrote the story of traumatic illness rate decreased compared with the control group who did not write the story of traumatic.

In another study in the 1990s, people with AIDS who wrote the story about the diagnosis and how AIDS affects their lives, it can have a beneficial increase in white blood cell counts and decreased virus.

Study after study conducted by Dr.. Pennebaker led him to conclude that writing a negative experience into words seems to have a positive effect on physical and psychological.

Dr. Pennebaker also learn how the nuances of how writing can help people to recover. One of them is able to write positive things in his writings, such as 'love', 'caring', 'happy' and 'joy', which seems more useful than others.

"Even if people say 'no one care about me' or 'I do not love anyone,' which means they are still thinking about the dimensions of happiness. It is better to say 'you're not satisfied' rather than saying 'you're sad'," explained Dr. Pennebaker.

Another study also conducted Nancy Morgan of Georgetown's Lombardi Cancer Center. By the time he created the expressive writing program at the Lombardi in 2001, she had lost her mother and her husband due to cancer.

Through the program she held writing workshops for patients, clergy, nurses, social workers and medical students. Morgan study showed a significant correlation between self-expression and the way cancer patients think about their disease, and certain physical improvements in their health.

"What surprised me was the similarity in writing. Almost every person who describes shock at receiving a diagnosis of cancer to some degree of acceptance of a form of gratitude from some specific transformations in his life," explains Morgan.

The sense is, continued Morgan, "cancer is not a gift 'but teaches how patients appreciate the gift of their lives.

"The patients seem to find a way out of the darkness and I believe writing helps them do that," said Morgan.